Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Glasgow

Lead Software Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

As of 25 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Lead Software Engineer salary in Glasgow.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 28 124
Rank change year-on-year -20 +96 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 14 689 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.66% 17.13% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.03% 17.46% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - - £54,875
25th Percentile - £72,500 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £77,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year - +16.98% -
75th Percentile - £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £122,773 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +53.47% +23.08% -11.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 462 3,947 1,326
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.67% 98.14% 86.05%
Number of salaries quoted 237 882 649
10th Percentile £31,150 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% -4.55% +13.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.25% +6.67%

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Lead Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in Glasgow

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in Glasgow.

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in Glasgow

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 25 May 2025, Lead Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Finance
1 14 (100.00%) Law
1 14 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 14 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 12 (85.71%) Operational Stability
2 12 (85.71%) Agile
3 10 (71.43%) SDLC
3 10 (71.43%) Cloud Native
4 9 (64.29%) Banking
5 8 (57.14%) Java
5 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
6 7 (50.00%) Architectural Design
6 7 (50.00%) Community of Practice
6 7 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (50.00%) Information Architecture
6 7 (50.00%) Machine Learning
7 6 (42.86%) Kafka
7 6 (42.86%) AWS
7 6 (42.86%) Python
8 5 (35.71%) Spring
8 5 (35.71%) Marketing
8 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
9 4 (28.57%) Mathematics
9 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
9 4 (28.57%) SQL
10 3 (21.43%) RESTful
10 3 (21.43%) Terraform
10 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
10 3 (21.43%) Big Data

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Apache
1 2 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Big Data
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (14.29%) KDB
2 2 (14.29%) Kdb+
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (7.14%) Data Mart
3 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.14%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (7.14%) Parquet
3 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) JUnit
General
1 14 (100.00%) Finance
1 14 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 14 (100.00%) Law
2 9 (64.29%) Banking
3 5 (35.71%) Marketing
4 2 (14.29%) Private Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Front Office
5 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Kafka
2 5 (35.71%) Spring
3 3 (21.43%) RESTful
4 2 (14.29%) React
4 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 2 (14.29%) Web Services
5 1 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (7.14%) J2EE
5 1 (7.14%) OAuth
5 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
5 1 (7.14%) OpenID
5 1 (7.14%) PySpark
5 1 (7.14%) REST
5 1 (7.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.14%) Credit Risk
3 1 (7.14%) Derivative
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Fixed Income
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (85.71%) Agile
2 12 (85.71%) Operational Stability
3 10 (71.43%) SDLC
4 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
5 7 (50.00%) Architectural Design
5 7 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (50.00%) Community of Practice
5 7 (50.00%) Information Architecture
5 7 (50.00%) Machine Learning
6 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
7 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
7 4 (28.57%) Mathematics
8 3 (21.43%) Tech Ops
9 2 (14.29%) Asset Management
9 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 2 (14.29%) Investment Management
9 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
9 2 (14.29%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Java
2 6 (42.86%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) C#
5 1 (7.14%) Go
5 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Netcool
2 1 (7.14%) Netcool/OMNIbus
2 1 (7.14%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.14%) Facebook
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) IBM
2 1 (7.14%) Murex
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk